HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II 's astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity 's first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not...
VATICAN CITY (AP) – When Pope Leo XIV pronounced himself a “son of Saint Augustine” the night of his election, some Algerians took that to mean his ancestors hailed from the North African country where the 5th century saint lived and died. Leo’s line, of course, referred to his Augustinian...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia...
BEIJING (AP) — Taiwan 's opposition leader on Friday met Chinese President Xi Jinping at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, the first such encounter in over a decade, with both sides affirming the need for maintaining peace around the self-ruled island island China claims as its...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Negotiators from Iran and the United States prepared Friday for high-level talks planned to start a day later in Islamabad, seeking to steady a ceasefire teetering over Israel and Hezbollah exchanging fire and Tehran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz. US...
Karl Eldrew Yulo picked up right where he left off, booking a place in the floor exercise at the Osijek leg of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series in Croatia last Thursday, April 9. Fresh off a two-bronze-medal haul in the Cairo leg last week, the 18-year-old Filipino standout stayed in...
SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea’s 20th-century history was reshaped by the Korean War, which devastated the nation, claimed countless lives, and tore families apart. At the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the memories of the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, remain permanently...
HOUSTON (AP) – Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 earlier this week, proposing deeply personal names for a pair of lunar craters. Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew asked permission to name one small, fresh...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Semiofficial news agencies in Iran published a chart Thursday suggesting the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard put sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz during the war, in a message that may be intended to pressure the US as uncertainty hangs over a...
SEOUL, South Korea - Kyobo Book Centre, the largest bookstore in South Korea, is more than that. In popular culture, Kyobo’s Gwanghwamun branch, the first and main branch, was a filming location for the hit 2007 K-drama “Coffee Prince” that starred Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun-hye. Participants...
Bossa Nova Queen Sitti recently gave fans a glimpse into her life as a mother, sharing a hilarious moment when her young daughters discovered just how famous their mom really is. "Last month, I brought them to Bukidnon — I have two girls, ages 7 (Issiah Danelle) and 4 (Osseah Lucille). They were...
WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is expected to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to try to smooth over the president 's anger with the military alliance over the Iran war. Trump had suggested the U.S. may consider leaving the trans-Atlantic alliance after...
